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I now receive emails every day with questions about certificates and/or Outlook Anywhere. The questions about Outlook Anywhere are usually also related to the certificates. In most cases, the emails end with a sentence similar to this one: Certificates are a red rag for me! The sentence comes from a mail that I received today ... Read more
Thanks to Autodiscover, it is easy to set up Outlook profiles for Exchange Server. Users only have to click "Next" a few times and the corresponding profile is created. The following dialogs should therefore be familiar to most people: However, since no user interaction is required here in the case of Exchange Server and a correct Autodiscover configuration and ... Read more
A virus scanner has also been included since Exchange 2013. As with most other virus scanners, the signatures must also be updated here. Problems can occur when updating the signatures, especially if Exchange is not installed on the C: drive. The following entry can then be found in the event log: Source: FIPFS Event ID: 6027 MS Filtering ... Read more
I have already received the following questions about the Noderunner process or statements in one form or another by e-mail: Noderunner.exe consumes almost all the RAM and almost always has 100 % CPU load, what can I do? Here's something more desperate: From day one, the noderunner has been eating up resources we ... Read more
Today is regular Exchange Patch Day and updates have been released for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016. The most important new features at a glance: Windows Server 2016 Support for Exchange 2016 CU 3 .NET Framework 4.6.2 Support for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2013 Improvements to high availability for Exchange 2016 Installation of updates in local language, ... Read more
Outside of the usual patch interval for Exchange Server, Microsoft has released a security update for all Exchange Server versions, which is intended to fix several security vulnerabilities classified as high or critical. Here is the link to the security bulletin: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-108 Brief description of the vulnerability: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution in some of the ... Read more
In addition to Let's Encrypt, StartSSL also offers free SAN certificates for up to 5 domains with a term of 1 year for free. The certificates are supported by all common browsers and devices. The advantage of StartSSL over Let's Encrypt is that the certificates are valid for 1 year, compared to only 3 months with Let's Encrypt. The certificates must be ... Read more
Testing, testing, testing and checking requirements As Exchange is a central and important system in many companies, it is advisable to test new updates in a test environment. The test environment should correspond as closely as possible to the productive environment. Of course, other applications/processes/services that are dependent on Exchange must also be tested as far as possible. ... Read more
New updates for Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Server 2016 were released today. Click here to download directly: Exchange Server 2016 CU 2 Exchange Server 2013 CU 13 CU13 for Exchange 2013 and CU2 for Exchange 2016 bring .NET 4.6.1 support and fix a problem when migrating public folders that could lead to data loss. Read more
Today is the day, I have just uploaded version 3.2 of the Exchange Reporter. In the current version, I was able to correct many errors thanks to many comments. Many thanks at this point to all those who have reported errors. I would especially like to thank Ajdin, who not only found most of the errors, but also ... Read more
